FIM provides a simple model for managing identity and providing resource access. It spans companies or security domains to provide identities access to information and services without replicating identity and security administration at both companies.

Tivoli Federated Identity Manager
Tivoli Federated Identity Management (FIM) provides a simple, loosely-coupled model for managing identity and access to resources that span companies or security domains. Rather than replicate identity and security administration at both companies, Tivoli Federated Identity Manager provides a simple model for managing identities and providing them with access to information and services in a trusted fashion. For companies deploying Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services, FIM provides policy-based integrated security management for federated Web services. The foundation of FIM is trust, integrity, and privacy of data.

QuickStart Solution
This service offering helps you to quickly install an IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager solution using best practices to help achieve your federated identity management objectives.

Challenges
• Addressing the challenges of implementing federated identity management in order to extend more efficiently to customers, business partners and suppliers.
• Deploying in a proven, methodical manner to reap full benefits, ROI and cost efficiencies.
• Avoiding deployment issues due to lack of skills.
• Successfully and rapidly deploying in order to leverage trusted relationships.
• Managing growing connectivity costs in a timeframe to gain competitive edge.

Benefits
• Essential up-front deployment planning for the best chance of success.
• Leverage Titan Solutions’ experience with simplifying identity management across multiple platforms, e-business applications, third-party mobility products and middleware – throughout the enterprise.
• Comprehensive assessment of your environment, expectations, business case and processes.
• Solution design options outlined as a blueprint to be used in the phased approach to deployment.
• Learn skills and gain hands-on experience.
• Help plan for future needs with lessons learned and experience for next steps.

Deliverables
• Comprehensive assessment, architecture and solution design options outlined, including:
• Business case, IT processes, network topology and proposed architecture
• Compatibility matrix and sizing estimates
• Logical component view
• Summary of custom development requirements
• Task list for detailed solution design and implementation phase
• Risks and risk mitigation
• Skills gap analysis and hands-on skills transfer
• Limited implementation.
• Duration: 35 days at customer site.